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Subject: Origin of Cortana

Expressing my strong liberal views without shame. Favorite quotes below:

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."
"One starts to live when he can live outside himself."

- Albert Einstein

In the novel The Fall of Reach by Nylund, Cortana was described as being a smart AI who was produced from a clone brain of Dr. Halsey. However, in Reach on the mission "The Package," Halsey remarks that the AI is the custodian of an ancient civilization (the Forerunners presumably).

I haven't heard discussion about this potential contradiction in canon. Am I missing something, or is it just another aspect of seemingly contradictory fiction?

  • 03.06.2011 6:56 PM PDT

Posted by: Plasma Prestige
In the novel The Fall of Reach by Nylund, Cortana was described as being a smart AI who was produced from a clone brain of Dr. Halsey. However, in Reach on the mission "The Package," Halsey remarks that the AI is the custodian of an ancient civilization (the Forerunners presumably).

I haven't heard discussion about this potential contradiction in canon. Am I missing something, or is it just another aspect of seemingly contradictory fiction?


She's a custodian. Doesn't mean she was made by the Forerunner, just reading all the data.

  • 03.06.2011 6:59 PM PDT
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She is computer program.

She runs Windows Vista Military Edition.

That's why she went rampant...she crashed.

  • 03.06.2011 7:07 PM PDT

Didact's Reprisal -
Now is the time of our unworlding
One final effort is all that remains
And I am not afraid
We shall fulfill our promise
We fight for the grace of the Mantle
And this time none of you will be left behind

If you read Halsey's journal, she confirms what was told in Fall of Reach. I think you just misinterpreted the dialogue.

  • 03.06.2011 8:29 PM PDT

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"Ignorance is a plague."

Close, but the plague killed those infected with it, and the ignorant are still alive.
I wish ignorance was a plague.

She was made by humans from Halsey's brain.

  • 03.06.2011 8:46 PM PDT

Online ID: GriffGraff15

Using your logic, custodians are created from the trash that they clean up...

[Edited on 03.06.2011 9:00 PM PST]

  • 03.06.2011 8:59 PM PDT

She is the custodian because she is the caretaker of the data they discovered in the lab. And using it they will save the galaxy.

  • 03.06.2011 10:01 PM PDT

"I may not be perfect, but always been true."

Posted by: Naked Crook
She is computer program.

She runs Windows Vista Military Edition.

That's why she went rampant...she crashed.


I lol'd

  • 03.06.2011 10:42 PM PDT

Posted by: RKOSNAKE
Posted by: Naked Crook
She is computer program.

She runs Windows Vista Military Edition.

That's why she went rampant...she crashed.


I lol'd

They should've switched to Mac.

  • 03.07.2011 4:58 AM PDT

http://www.halo-forum.com

Cortana was made from a clone of Halsey's brain. "Custodian" simply means that she was in charge of the Forerunner data extracted from beneath Swords base.

  • 03.07.2011 5:01 AM PDT